... the theory that furries are more accepting goes straight out the window. Thanks for making the rest of us look bad! Am I the only one who doesn't look upon Dennis Avner with something other than negativity?
So far as I know, Stalking Tiger IS part Native American. Never heard otherwise, and in the absence of contradictory information, I'm inclined to believe his website. (And if you're basing it upon his name, you're shallower than I thought.)
As for the polar bear thing.... I'm inclined to mirror 2 the Griffon here. I'm really sure that non-corporeal animal spirits CARE about distance or race. "I'd really love to be your spirit animal, but see, you were born in America and have European heritage, and I'm a kangaroo, it just wouldn't work out. Let's just be friends." Shyeeeeeeeah.
As 2 said, it is REALLY annoying when people who think they've got spirituality all worked out try to define it for the rest of us. You are an expert in these matters and can tell us what spirit animals we can and can't have because......?
As for "serious Lakota spiritualists," any spiritualist I would seriously consider respecting would say it's not their place to "pin his ass to the wall." Even if your spiritual system is as solid to you as mathematics or physics, going around telling others that their beliefs are wrong and yours are right is arrogant, hubristic, and just plain bad manners.
Part of a mature, well-developed spirituality is being secure enough in your beliefs, or lack of them, to not try to brow-beat anyone whose beliefs or image you don't like. That's valid across the board, I believe.
I WILL agree that the lawyerese smells fishy. But I'd get the word from the tiger's mouth on that before decreeing him a publicity hound or fake. Perhaps it's on the advice of a publicist. Or maybe he isn't yet completely resolved/comfortable/secure about the public and media's view of him.
But anyone who's got the committment, drive, and guts to do this level of body modification deserves the benefit of a doubt IMHO. Anyone who'd do that level of permenant and expensive modification to themselves would have to be crazy or stupid if it wasn't deeply meaningful to them, and he strikes me as neither. He's pretty much let the media come to him, from what I know - he lives an otherwise secluded life away from the city.
And oh yes, he works in electronics, rather skilled work I believe. He's GOT to be good to work around his talons/nails, which are very long. In presentations he is rather well-spoken, though the words sound odd due to the teeth implants, which really do look hella cool.
... the theory that furries are more accepting goes straight out the window. Thanks for making the rest of us look bad! Am I the only one who doesn't look upon Dennis Avner with something other than negativity?
So far as I know, Stalking Tiger IS part Native American. Never heard otherwise, and in the absence of contradictory information, I'm inclined to believe his website. (And if you're basing it upon his name, you're shallower than I thought.)
As for the polar bear thing.... I'm inclined to mirror 2 the Griffon here. I'm really sure that non-corporeal animal spirits CARE about distance or race. "I'd really love to be your spirit animal, but see, you were born in America and have European heritage, and I'm a kangaroo, it just wouldn't work out. Let's just be friends." Shyeeeeeeeah.
As 2 said, it is REALLY annoying when people who think they've got spirituality all worked out try to define it for the rest of us. You are an expert in these matters and can tell us what spirit animals we can and can't have because......?
As for "serious Lakota spiritualists," any spiritualist I would seriously consider respecting would say it's not their place to "pin his ass to the wall." Even if your spiritual system is as solid to you as mathematics or physics, going around telling others that their beliefs are wrong and yours are right is arrogant, hubristic, and just plain bad manners.
Part of a mature, well-developed spirituality is being secure enough in your beliefs, or lack of them, to not try to brow-beat anyone whose beliefs or image you don't like. That's valid across the board, I believe.
I WILL agree that the lawyerese smells fishy. But I'd get the word from the tiger's mouth on that before decreeing him a publicity hound or fake. Perhaps it's on the advice of a publicist. Or maybe he isn't yet completely resolved/comfortable/secure about the public and media's view of him.
But anyone who's got the committment, drive, and guts to do this level of body modification deserves the benefit of a doubt IMHO. Anyone who'd do that level of permenant and expensive modification to themselves would have to be crazy or stupid if it wasn't deeply meaningful to them, and he strikes me as neither. He's pretty much let the media come to him, from what I know - he lives an otherwise secluded life away from the city.
And oh yes, he works in electronics, rather skilled work I believe. He's GOT to be good to work around his talons/nails, which are very long. In presentations he is rather well-spoken, though the words sound odd due to the teeth implants, which really do look hella cool.